@@pieterwillembotha6719 , like a coincidence of self enslavement?, I believe that repeating patterns, many of which are subconscious, is not a coincidence, the only thing that makes us get out of them is to evolve, in this case to learn something new, that is like " Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", so yeah, not "pure" coincidences i guess, there is a quantum theory about that also ( not a thin foil hat one btw ).
@@pieterwillembotha6719 , well, was not a philosophical question i guess, you have a "mission", the last time i was talking about "subconscious" acts, so now i will talk about "conscious" acts, so yes that people not make "happenstance's" they are "rational", so yeah was a controlled damage movement, the chess game behind that move, for those of us who are not in the game, is not incomprehensible, so yeah, the happy ignorance of idiots. Here is the thing making something "subconscious" or "conscious", is still part of free will.
Well, until Linux offers a SINGLE app (and SMALL too) that offers all the functionality that "simple" things like MSPaint provides, I'm using Wine for at least half of my apps. There are many apps I stumbled into that work better inside of Wine than the native Linux version too, Dosbox one of them that I can recall from memory. Epsxe emulator too. There's a bunch.
For what it's worth, the problems I have on Windows and Mac are things like "the theme isn't cohesive, or this old app needs a ton of old libraries" whereas using Linux my problems are usually along the lines of "my screen turns black every 30 seconds for 1 second and my car won't start anymore" I still love GNU / Linux don't get me wrong.
To be honest, I don't remember having problems with windows in several years. With Ubuntu 18.04 I needed several evenings to start the installer and to install the nVidia display/compute drivers. Then there was an wierd issue with my display turning black every several seconds. When I updated to 20.04 the only graphical environment that didn't imidietly crashed was Cinnamon.
My Mac experience has been without problems. But only because I have never used a Mac in my life. Windows, on the other hand, is incredible. Every single version of Windows was broken. There has never been a good one.
must also account that people are paying for windows, and it is an expensive os lol. Imagine having to pay for something that doesn't work properly and you cant fix yourself. Meanwhile, Linux won't have any problems until you fuck up and you are always free to fix it yourself. IF YOU ARE OFFERING A PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT YOU PROMISE TO MAINTAIN WHILE CHARGING MONEY FOR IT, THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS MAKE SURE IT WORKS. lol JUST US ETEMPLE OS YOU GL-... -Rant.exe has stopped working XDXDXD
@Schrödinger Cat Aaaaaaaactually, Nvidia open sourced their development kit. And the raw performance (under KDE) is fluid. Both native games and through Proton are set at Ultra settings on my 1660 Super, and the experience is kinda magical
"I want to be a vegan, because it's better for my health and the environment and animals!" *bites into highly processed meat-replacement products* "This doesn't taste like meat at all. That's a total dealbreaker, I'll switch back to meat."
Idk if you intended a subtle ironic jab but veganism how Westerners understand it isn't even better for the environment and the benefit for animals is iffy too
@@seronymus It definitely is better for the environment. Animals raised on farms need vast quantities of land to graze and is the primary driver of deforestation (almost all deforested rainforest is used exclusively for cattle), industrial farm animals produce vast quantities of shit that washes into the water supply and oceans, animals that don't graze need feed which consumes more crops than eating them directly (even after you account for the inedible components of animal feed), uses tons of fresh water, and produce tons of greenhouse gases. Questioning the benefit to animals is pants on head stupid. If we stop breeding farm animals, there wont be any farm animals to suffer other than the already existing population that will diminish over time. We don't even need to ban the practice, just if people conciously chose to cut back and learned to cook without centering every meal around a piece of meat. Now you might still say, "what about animals that need to be hunted or else they will have a population surge!" Well that wouldn't be a problem if we didn't kill all the predators to protect farm animals would it? It is definitely healthy and there is a massive causal link between consuming meat and experiencing diabetes/heart disease/cancer. You do not need to eat fortified foods or supplements as a vegan if you maintain a varied diet and there is a rich history of preindustrial cultures with vegan diets (including Christian Orthodox and certain monk orders). For almost all stationary agriculture people hunting was not a common past time and meat was not an everyday thing. Luke's most recent blog post about the topic makes me want to slap him. It's 80% just talking shit about vegans being annoying/marxist/bugmen and 20% strawman points/false assertions. Full disclosure I am vegetarian and eat dairy/eggs, however if you consider eating a dog/cat/pet bird to be abhorrent then how the hell can you justify eating a pig/cow/horse/chicken when it is obvious they are capable of all the same thoughts and feelings.
@@SpencerLemay Consider watching What I've Learned's "Eating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why". He touches on every point I believe you've brought up and explains why it still makes more sense.
@@personanongratis To get started, I installed arch like 9 months ago, went mental learning loads of things (using and customising a tiling window manager for the first time etc) I didn't need to know during the 6 months I used ubuntu, then can quite happily not need to do anything for weeks if not months. There's been one thing that came up from updating that required manual intervention, otherwise, it's been less of a headache than windows from my experience anyway. Granted there's the odd thing that comes up, but it's so easily solvable most of the time I don't even remember it. Whereas when something messed me about in windows, it was basically, well that's how it is now, if you don't like it, don't use it.
To me it's opposite I despise man pages. I used extensively for writing programs but still I hate man pages and documentation in every step but need none the less. Should have become mathmatician
@@Lucas-md8gg you mean */starBSD? It's a _wildcard character_ which represents *any* or *no* character. If I expand it in this context it would be: - Wait till U try Open-/Free-/Net-/Dragonfly-/Ghost-/Arisblu-/Hello-/Midnight-/etc. -BSD! A Berkeley distribution or no distribution. (Refers to BSD - The Berkeley Software Distribution of the Unix source code which finally was able to replace all the license encumbered AT&T UNIX® code under a new *permissive* license. GPL is a _restrictive_ one which is not free as it dictates what one can and must do with the code, so it's not really a gift, but comes with a catch and even contaminates other works which in practice means that GPLv3 projects can use permissively licensed stuff and it will force it to be GPL. GNU is Not UNIX!)
The nice thing about a lot of open source programs is that most of them have a Windows port, they can try a lot of the alternatives without even installing Linux. Moving to Linux was never too much of a pain for me because I already was using a lot of open source software like Gimp, Inkscape or Audacity before making the switch.
@@marioschroers7318 There is a huge number of old Windows games that run very well under WINE, but not in Windows Vista and newer. That has to count for something.
@@marioschroers7318 It's nice as a base for Proton if you like Windows games, for example I play Il-2 1946 on my Linux system just fine, with a joystick and all.
@@marioschroers7318 yeah, but you asked for why anyone would use wine, and I gave its only sane use... Anyway, I have been getting interested in classic Tetris recently. What kind of setup would you reccomend to learn the game? Also, I am too generally not a big gamer outside of flight games (like Il-2) and strategy games.
"And here we see a minimalist Linux install enthusiast in his natural habitat. Under closer inspection it appears that this particular individual is filming a vlog post, just this very second."
We'll see him on the news when national guard descends upon his anti corporate commune with Blackhawk choppers and machine guns and burn his crops which "accidentally" sets the house on fire.... While they're shooting at it. That's what happens when you create a radical branch, ignore the committers and fork too far from the source.
As a gentoo user, I can confirm that. Except games, I always say to go for the alternatives and expect changing the workflow. It's better to tell the bitter truths than spreading sweet lies.
What sucks is that, for some workflows (like architectural CAD and BIM) there's no reasonably complete open source alternative. That would make a VM (or dual boot) absolutely necessary
@@Diegorskysp17 In those situations, I do agree. Those alternatives aren't practical for most professionals which is the exception. Games with anti cheat elements are also under this exception too. Using a VM is necessary in those places.
@@PixelTrik I think I read somewhere that the Lutris teams was working on Easy Anti-Cheat compatibility so I think that is going to be taken care of in the future. But AEC software feels like a big blindspot in Linux (despite FreeCAD making some impressive improvements lately, but I still find it a bit unintuitive). Hopefully it also gets fixed in the future because I'm loving the ecosystem so far, despite my short time with it (installed Pop! OS on my laptop a couple days ago and i'm not regretting it)
@@jimmyneutron129 In a professional setting, you have to deal with the ecosystem your employer chose. My current employer relies on the MS ecosystem so that's what I'm put up with. On my personal machines, I tend to use Linux, not to be """different""" but the windows alternatives for programming workflows aren't upto the mark and I have to rely on WSL 2 on my workstations, this was something I didn't have the insight back when I originally commented.
Emacs is an interpreted programming language that happens to come with smaller programs that do various specific things. It's more comparable to Unix itself than to normal programs.
The best thing to do is to have a dual boot: one linux partition, one windows partition. If you need to do some stuff in windows you just do a reboot and there you go; if you want to return to linux, just another reboot. That's the best solution for me (for now).
I installed and used Arch Linux for years on VirtualBox before attempting to install it on actual hardware. I only had one laptop and didn't want to get rid of my Windows system completely, so that was the compromise I got. Installing and running on a VM was not hard. When I did install on real hardware, though, by then I had learned so much that the process was not hard at all (the hardest part was getting networking; part of that was stupidity). I still remember the magic moment when I moved all my config stuff to the new machine and when it started up, everything was just like I had customized on my VM, working beautifully.
I think the separate PC thing is 100% needed for learning Linux, because when you first start, it will take a bit to learn the new programs and adjust to the new environment. If you have something that needs to be done *now*. It's better to have the Windows or Mac that you know so you can do what you need so when you're learning Linux you don't feel rushed to get everything working all at once and you can take the time to learn.
I think gayming is a valid reason to run a windows virtual machine with GPU passthrough (the "easier" alternative would be dual booting but that's a pain in the ass) But aside from that I can't think of any programs/software I miss from windows, in fact it's more like the other way around
Not necessarily. There are many fun games which native (or ported) on Linux. Also most of those win-only games are multiplayer ones with toxic community. (By the way, the sole reason I tried Linux was gaming, because the game I played (and modded) had only a 32bit Windows port.) In my opinion the one and only reason to use Windows VMs is CAD/CAM. There isn't any proper software in this area which meets industry standards (maybe NX have native Linux version but it's mostly for manufacturing, not design and engineering).
@@0xva Kerbal Space Program. I began to play it around v0.23.5 With mods it easily took 10+ gigs of ram. Also the Linux version was generally more stable at that time.
@@IAintSeenNoNiggaHere Alot of industries have software that only works on Windows. My job, the only browser you can use to access it is Internet Explorer with Silverlight. You can't even use Edge. That's how out of date it is.
@@AnonymousGentooman those are easy picks because they are good, but the real deal is GIMP. If they survive using GIMP over photoshop they can survive anything.
@@prostagma3132 There is no reason to ever use GIMP for anything, it's an awful experience and for everything it can do, there is other open source software that can do it better and/or easier. Most notably Krita
MORPHEUS: I imagine, right now, you must be feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole? NEO: You could say that. MORPHEUS: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up. MORPHEUS: Ironically, this is not far from the truth. MORPHEUS: Do you believe in proprietary, Neo? NEO: No. MORPHEUS: Why not? NEO: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life. MORPHEUS: I know exactly what you mean. MORPHEUS: Let me tell you why you are here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that something is wrong with windows and macOS. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in the mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about? NEO: Linux? MORPHEUS: do you want to know what it is? MORPHEUS: Linux is everywhere, it's all around us, here even in this room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your phone. You feel it when you go to work, when you go to Wallmart, when you play on Minecraft servers. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth. NEO What truth? MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot protect your privacy, customize, or control. A prison for your mind. MORPHEUS: Unfortunately, no one can be told what Linux is. You have to see it for yourself. MORPHEUS: This is your last chance. After this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. MORPHEUS: You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. MORPHEUS: Remember that all I am offering is the truth. Nothing more.
First I started watching Linux youtubers, then I bought a used X220 for distro-hopping and dipping my toes in Linux, now it's installed on my main machine and I'm super comfortable.
It's just another pain in the ass to deal with, honestly. It's not legendarily difficult to get set up but it just adds another thing that can fuck up over the course of a work day.
@@knucklehead99-z1w Setting up a VM is pretty easy on its own and can be made even easier is you use automation tools. Moreover managing the software inside the VM is also pretty easy once you learn how to use windows package managers such as chocolatey and scoop. Of course managing software the windows way (by downloading random binaries off of shady websites) is a pain in the ass but 99% of the time you don't actually need to do that.
As someone who got into linux and was immediately directed to using KVM and having to read through pages and pages of documentation, fixes, and methods I can say it was NOT worth it. I eventually got the KVM running and it does all the windows things I want and then I realized I was just using windows inside of linux, I wasn't taking any of the benefits of linux, when I acutally started to learn what linux can offer and what advantages it has made my workflow change for the better and made me feel like a dumbass for spending so much time with virtualization instead of LINUX the thing I SWITCHED FOR. Good video +2.
Steam certainly has a bunch of other problems relating to proprietary software, not actually owning your games, data collection, etc., but it actually has come a long way when it comes to Linux compatibility. A good amount of games are native on Linux (maybe not newer AAA titles, but who cares about those) and those that aren't typically run incredibly well on Proton. For most of the games I've played recently via Proton, they either worked out of the box or required maybe one or two lines of launch scripting.
Actually I do use virtual machines whenever college suggests some stupid application for some course ( I am a CS student) and i fail to find an alternative, which happens rarely. One more reason to love linux ❤️
I gave my computer illiterate 65 year old father an installation of Linux Mint. Gave him a one hour tour on how to use the menu, how to use open office and thunderbird. I only had to help him set up envelope printing due to driver issues and everything else has been working for 3 years without any of my input. Linux doesn't have to be hard for anyone.
I don't think that's how it usually goes. My mother even manages to break windows machines, she'd get Mint to an unbootable state within days. I personally went with a "userfriendly" distro too(fedora) and had tons of problems all day (lots of those caused by shitland and gnome but still) . In the end it was worth it for me but probably not for most people, especially computer illiterate ones.
Part of it is that people like the idea behind linux, but don't want to abandon their workflow they spent considerable time on developing just for some improvement in some aspects. For example if someone is perfectly comfortable using vim and bash scripts to do the workflow they are used to, they might find it's not worth to learn emacs for some things that may, or may not improve their workflow.
@@personanongratis anyone capable of installing Linux on bare metal is also capable of installing Windows in a VM. It’s easier to make a VM than a bare metal install because the process is nearly identical but you don’t have to open BIOS/UEFI in the VM case.
When I explain linux vs macos/windows to non-linux users, I use a metaphor. I say something to the following effect: Whenever you use your computer you are trying to accomplish a task. That task can be editing a video, getting online, checking email, watching youtube, streaming on twitch, managing your finances, or any number of things. But for the purpose of using an understandable metaphor let's say that the task is picking apples off of a tree in a dark room. Perhaps a garage for some reason (computer science is weird you find yourself solving pretty strange problems). You have two options. One a robot that has a few functions. You push a button and it runs into the room (leaving you outside), finds the tree using dark vision, climbs it, and starts flailing its arms around knocking apples down. It then runs around the room picking up all the apples off of the floor and then brings them out of the room for you. You can't go into the room with the robot, and even if you could it's dark in there, so if anything goes wrong, good luck troubleshooting it. It has a configuration settings panel that you can dink around with though. Hopefully one of those settings manages to solve any problems that might occur. Option 2. You have a series of high tech micro tools that get one thing done well, but none of them alone can do your task. This is what the workflow looks like using those tools. You open the door. It's dark inside. You use a light to see what's inside. You see a tree. You get a ladder and climb up the tree. You now see apples. You have a bucket that can automatically grab all apples you can see. Now you have a bucket of apples. You set up a magical transport to your kitchen. Now you use your time looper button to remember all these tasks, so that you can now do them all automatically with the push of a button when it's time to harvest again next year. The windows way run applegrabber.exe The linux way run door | light | ladder | bucket | transport The upsides of using windows is that you didn't have to learn anything, and now you have some apples. The downside is that you had to pay a subscription fee, you learned nothing, and you don't even know if you got all of the apples. Some of them were probably damaged in the process because who even knows what that robot did in there?? All you know is that the apples are super dirty for some reason, but they'll work. The upside of linux is that you have control over the process, can troubleshoot if anything goes wrong, and in the future it's just as easy as the windows solution. On top of that, you know how to make things like this happen, so if you want to do another task with these apples, you are already super comfortable working with them. Creating cider or picking a different kind of fruit won't take additional subscriptions/robots. Also, chaining tools together is much cooler. It's what Batman would do. Depending on who I'm talking to I sub out batman for Link, Samus, Ironman, Gandalf, Rick, or whoever makes the most sense for that person.
As a longtime Windows user, i couldn´t agree more with anything you said here. By installing GNU/Linux, your are subscribing to, if not a religion, at least to a core principle which is Freedom in software. This means Freedom to do anything on your machine the way you see fit. The problem with Freedom is that it is entirely useless if you don´t know how or don´t have the discipline to deal with it even to a point where all the choices you have to make actually become shackles. It is a product of the modern zeitgeist to always ask for more freedom and rights without considering to fill these empty terms with worth through actual work and discipline. This is best exemplified through the rise of Ubuntu and it´s many derivatives which give you the false promise of being a "linux for everyone". Just install and use it and you are free, we help you along the way by removing any notion of you actually using something different than macOS or Windows. We are so nice and friendly over here. Ubuntu is basically the democratic party of the linux world. Which brings us of course to the republican party of the United States of Distros which is essentially Debian or, even more extreme, every distro which touts itself to be "libre". These are conservative bible-thumper distros. Here, you reach Freedom not in the worldly but in the spritual realm through asceticism. Your WiFi-card doesn´t work? Well you should have never bought hardware that doesn´t work without binary blobs anyway, just like you should not have had sex before marriage. Now go and atone for your sins. This is why i also completely agree with your sentiments about Arch. Arch basically says: You want to reach the top of the mountain? I show you the exact way to get there but you have to climb the mountain by yourself. It doesn´t give you any false promises but gives you back what you put in it without limiting you in any way. It is a truely libertarian distro and the most honest approach to GNU/Linux imo. They also seem to have thought their shit much more through which can be seen with the AUR. I always found software distribution through distro specific, restrictive repositories in a ecosystem consisting of dozens of little, independent distros to be highly ineffective and anachronistic. AUR is a much better fit for a diverse, community driven ecosystem. I used Ubuntu back in the Vista days and was quite happy with it but i switched back immediately once Win7 came out, there was just nothing holding me there. I use a computer as a platform to run my apps on and cannot be bothered with the benefits of free software. I rather prefer the freedom of being able to download any commercial or non-commercial software known to man from any site i want in form of an .exe or .msi file and install it with a double click. There is a german saying: "Do it right or don´t do it at all" and i decided long ago not to do it. But if i ever change my opinion in the future to become the master of my system, i will install Arch ;-)
When I switched to Ubuntu.. Automatic update broke everything, had to manually install the correct kernel version with headers so that Nvidia driver and sound would work. Automatic log-in - could not login on startup..had to create a new user via terminal.. Setring up VMWare (wanted to use Visual Studio with Xamarin) - kernel headers again.. Setting up NeoVim as an IDE with CoC and Clang, which was a bit tricky but at the end worked (unlike on windows)! There were many other minor issues and I am still a noob on Ubuntu, but I learned the basics fast (through pain..)
7:56 It will take something like 3 or 4 different apps to achieve the same functionality and options offered in a simple thing like MSPaint (take screenshot, insert said screenshot from clipboard, crop said screenshot, insert text overlay over this cropped screenshot) Each of these steps will require you one different app, using particular commands or even terminal commands. Such a hassle.
The counterpart is that Windows will potentially thrash your hard disks making them die prematurely, and other planned-obsolescense quirks built-in into their system. If you value your time, productivity above all else, and has money to spare for buying new parts every 3 years or so, go with Windows.
Linux used to be very free compared to all the locked-down things on Windows, but over the last 4 years the amount of hassle introduced since the adoption of Systemd as base for majority of major distros out there is a sign that unfortunately Linux lost its edge also on this front too. Things work, until someone comes and breaks it. Well, I'm gonna guess they figured out this would be the only way of some people to be able to keep long-term jobs and sustain their "careers". Hassle by design.
I always recommend people try setting up a dual boot system, usually with manjaro for the low barrier of entry. Most people still want to use their Windows programs, and if they don't have them and don't really get the Unix philosophy yet a lot of people are going to get frustrated and give up. If they're told "just follow this guide to dual boot Linux" it's pretty painless, and they can figure things out at their own pace.
My first semester ends in 11. Days. I'm going home for christmas, and the first thing im planning to do is install linux on my old MacBook Pro mid 2012. I've had an introduction to Linux course this semester, and I've planned to install Linux on my old MacBook since the first lesson. I'm really excited to expand upon my knowledge of Linux. I have tried Ubuntu on a VM on my main computer, but I never got any use out of that VM. Wish me luck on my install, I'm fairly certain I wanna try Artix using this guys install guide. Im excited to join in on your suffering!
same goes for me.. decided to stick to dual booting windows and linux, and all i do on windows is play games, and use certain programs that doesn't work on linux, like premiere pro and ableton live, since i've been still used to that.. however, i work a lot better with linux, especially when i do school, code, and other things.. its what i decided to do as well..
Hey Luke you might want to look at snaps/flat packs etc from a developers stand point, it might be easier for them to just supply a binary package in these formats than having to deal with managing and submitting their apps to separate repos for different distros. But yeah I *do* agree with you about them in general, I just think it is a worthwhile angle to take in to account.
It drives me crazy when people say for newbies to dual boot Linux with Windows (especially using GRUB). That's a great way to make everything a pain in the ass, accidentally nuke your partitions, and have Windows nuke your Linux partitions automatically. On my gaming PC, yes, it is quasi-dual booted. BUT, Ive been using Linux on other computers for a while now and know what to do. And those systems are on different drives that I use the BIOS to switch between. Windows doesnt even know that Linux drive exists, so it can't screw it up (though im sure it will eventually find a way).
I had to set up windows on my actual pc for some programs but before breaking shit I checked the arch wiki to learn how to set up a dual boot. Almost immediately gave up on it and just threw windows at the end of my secondary hd with some 60 gigs of storage. Way simpler to use the BIOS boot menu than have to deal with windows shit
Luke, This is the first vid I've seen of yours. You are right. I switched to Linux 3 years ago and had tried to switch way back in in the early 2000's with SUSE and Redhat. Linux is a whole lot easier/better now but I still dual boot with Windows 10 because there are programs I still use... Mainly Games that don't port easily to Linux unless you are English Bob - lol . That said the best thing people can do is set up a dual boot or better yet a separate system with Linux only and use apps like Libre Office and Gimp or other opensource apps that mirror the Windows based programs in many ways they are actually superior in function IMHO. Good luck with your channel.
Hey there. I agree with your main points. However, my advice is and always has been, is if your system is working for you, then don't change it. If you REALLY want to come over to Linux, do it with help. For me, it had to be "all in". That is not necessarily the best way, but some 20 years later, I have made a career using UNIX and Linux systems and programming. My graphics work now uses open source and I spent years with Adobe, however, I finally changed over to Gimp instead of Photoshop and InkScape instead of Illustrator, etc. It was all related to cost for me on those things. I think the video is good. I think new users ought to realize that there is a learning curve and a bit of work to make the transition and slowly might be the way to go. But I think patience is more the flavor of the day. Thanks for the great video!
One of the worst things about switching over to Linux is the overabundance of non-answers in regards to forums or stack overflow questions. They have an awful habit of explaining, ad nauseum, how something works and then somehow expect new users to instantly understand how that translates into terminal commands.
I haven't done a lot of shell scripting but I've been getting into it more lately and the possibilities it opens up are immense. I imaging trying to do some of the things you can do with a simple shell script on a Unix machine would be very hard on Windows (especially older versions.)
The only thing that finally worked for me (about 3 years ago) was this: No VMs. No dual boot. No wine. No Windows or Mac anywhere. As soon as I got rid of all those stupid half measures, I was back to my normal work speed in about three days. Those were the things that were slowing me down. btw I use Arch
@Miriam Castillejo Felosa Debian is a great Distro! I like Arch because it’s fun and it’s ok for me if it breaks. It really doesn’t break very often though.
I'm conflicted on this. The examples given are extremely easy to do imo. Setting up a virtual machine is a common use case for class work (don't @ me I'm not a professor). Steam is native, and requires just a couple check boxes to enable proton/wine, which works seamlessly for 90% of games (in my experience). However, yeah, learning linux principles is far more important than learning the ins and outs of running non-native applications. I do think that the majority of linux users do this to some extent though.
This is (kinda) exactly how I've started using Linux, I've installed Ubuntu just to fuck around and do basic Python scripting without fulling my Windows install with shit that I didn't understand at the time, then I've learned about LaTeX and that kept me closer to my Ubuntu install, after that I've started watching your LaTeX video I thought "wow, that autotiling stuff is what I've always wanted!". Less than an year forward I've yeeted my Windows install and I'm running (and loving) my Arch install with an autotiling wm
I installed linux around a year ago and used popos to best simulate windows, I fairly quickly quit because just ended up being a worse Windows. This time around I went straight into Arch and made sure to dual boot so I could gradually switch things over and get my install to where I like it before using it at all. Now my install works great and I use it 90% of the time though I still use my windows install whenever I run into a bug that I don't have time to fix or need to use a windows program.
The way I switched to Linux was dual booting, and slowly moving my workflow to Linux until eventually I didn't need windows anymore and I uninstalled it
yeah i was playing rocket league via proton while watching this vid (and it runs perfectly at 250fps, the built in limit). Wine in general is a lot better and easier to use than it used to be imo
On my first Arch Linux install, I set up Virtualbox to use CorelDRAW, Photoshop, etc. Now I simply use Inkscape, Gimp. At first it seems scary. If you've dedicated reading hundreds of pages to learn how to use a program and then have to switch to another one. But the point is that it's all repeating patterns. Inkscape is the same as CorelDRAW conceptually, it's just the interface and behavior that's different. But fundamentally they do the same. They all have layers, same tooling etc. So do not feel scared to switch to a new program if you have to. Its worth it.
100% agreed..We naturally are exited when we have a friend that talking about switching over.. I resist the urge and say " don't ..Its just not for everybody.and thats ok.
virtaul machines are really just point and click on some distros. i use them to try out different distros/desktops or for playing around with more advanced/dangerous commands. Creating one only took a few minutes.
Desktop pc in the mail, will arrive today. I’m not even sure yet which distro I’ll install there to be my first Linux machine after 12 years on Mac OS and prior Windows … but the only thing I’m expecting to be better on where I’m moving is - Bash! Hope that is the right mindset for a first Linux desktop :)
The correct answer is 'use a linux alternative that doesn't stray away from your workflow' and, install the distro that has the biggest application library. Because no newbie linux users has any idea on how to build and install a program. in short, recommend Manjaro KDE because of Pamac and the KDE compositor is superior to the garbage that is picom or the XFCE compositor.
There is another option: as a first step try to use Linux programs on Windows. Git, bash are ported pretty well, also ported BusyBox which contains 90% of essential tools including HTTP server. You may use OpenOffice and VLC. Not sure about GIMP or any other complicated program. Browsers ported pretty well and users spend there a lot of time. Unfortunately KDE and Gnome doesn’t port their apps. Only GEdit and few other minor programs have a binary for windows. IMHO this is totally against Free Software mindset to not port a program to proprietary platforms even if this is easy to do.
The worst part of Linux, is my friends moaning at me, because I can't play the latest multiplayer game about shooting and picking things up from the ground. It's also my favourite part.
PCI passthrough is actually really easy since there are like hundreds of step-by-step guides online, took me 40 minutes to set one up. It was the thing that convinced me to ditch my dualboot (which I barely used because Windows is a very jealous OS).
For me it seems that the best way to switch to Linux is installing it as a dual boot with previous OS. This way you can use the software you need on a system it was built for. I agree that using Windows programs on Linux when there is a good native alternative is a bad idea. BTW I'm not even thinking about switching from Ubuntu based systems to something else because all this 'proprietary garbage' works on them. Belive me, some people really need those programs for school, work etc. because they're required to use them.
The best advice that i can give to people that want to change to Linux, is to do dual boot with Windows and some Linux distro. Because with dual boot, you can gradually change Windows to Linux, and in last case use Windows to Run some programs. Also you have a lot of videos on RUclips about dual boot. Second advice, is not use Ubuntu, use Linux mint, for my experience mint is more friendly user that Ubuntu.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring as Wine, is in fact Windows/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Windows plus Linux. Wine is not an emulator unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning Linux system made useful by the compatibility layer Wine and Windows applications comprising a full OS as defined by gamers.
using steam on linux is literally the only thing out of this list that i actually think is worth while because i still play some games, and steam makes linux compatibility stupid easy. all i have to do is check the comments on protondb and set the game to use the right version of proton, maybe pop in a launch option, and it pretty much just works for games rated gold and platinum on the db. i wouldn't be able to figure out how to get those games running by myself
Depends on the case, i'm using virtual box for windows 10, only because the team of my job uses visual studio 2019 ( not visual studio code ) , but is so less pain having windows 10 on a virtual machine under linux than a native or dual boot windows instillation. And i have the extra protection layer of the windows accessing net trough Linux i literally can reject Microsoft specific net packets, not so bad, but for noobs everything is bad or difficult anyway.
people at my work use visual studio, I don't, and there was no reason for me to tell them so, there is literally no difference which Editor everyone is using, why does it matter?
@@ezforsaken , first of all, visual studio it's not "visual studio code" which is a notepad in essence, clarified that. If you can do a single project with c++ dll's with python scripting and c# winforms interface and DirectX for rendering, using a text editor, good for you, here is the thing, probably you will need an external build system, to build that project under Linux, and later include many preprocessors to the c++ code to make it functional under Linux ( including DirectX compatibility ), In my case i'm avoiding the pain in the ass.
@@redsmith9953 oh yeah I understand now where you come from, we do mostly web stuff so there is no point in IDE/Editor differences! Thanks for clarifying
The number one most appealing thing about Linux for Windows users is how lightweight it is compared to Windows. Just wait until their 10 year old PC can't run Windows 10 any more, and they will be looking for a solution. Jump in and say, "Instead of buying a new PC, you could install Linux Mint XFCE on it and it would be like buying a new PC." Works every time. Never had any complaints either, other than a printer having issues. Most of the people I know that use Linux only do because of economical reasons.
when Luke "we talk like running virtual machines is a normal thing" ... It's like he's been living in a mountain :D I know a guy, who basically uses a separate VM, for everything he does on his PC ... so he like, watches movies on 1 virtual machine, he plays games on another virtual machine, he browses the web on a 3rd virtual machine, he watches youtube on a 4th virtual machine ... it's like he basically has a VM for every possible variant of what hes doing on his PC :D its like one of the first things I learned to do when I started switching to linux, as I wanted to try out all these distros, then I realized distros doesn't matter, and I found LARBS :) been a larbs user for years :) LARBS simply works, while it's truly minimal :D
Linux has been the exact opposite of suffering for me. Sure, there's a lot of stuff I can't use because it's only compatiable with Windows. BUT. I haven't been left wanting. Linux has so many gorgeous options for getting stuff done, especially if you're a programmer. It's honestly been the best decision I ever made.
Sometimes, Linux Live Environments can even help you fix Windows boot issues. I upgraded my LG gram's main SSD, but it didn't boot. After booting into the Linux Mint Live Environment, I ran efibootmgr and found out that my new EFI partition has a different UUID from my old one. So I had to clear my entry, reboot into the Windows 10 Install Media, and recreate the Windows boot files in the Recovery Command Prompt. The computer booted successfully. Not even Windows can fix boot issues by itself
I set up Linux Mint for my parents, cinnamon desktop is pretty easy for them to use since they were coming from windows 7. Made them try to use Xiphos for a while since they were used to e-sword on windows. Months later I did end up setting up e-sword in wine for them since Xiphos had a bit of trouble with dictionaries. That was the only thing that we couldn't get working satisfactorily from the Mint repos.
GPU Passthrough is such an incredible pain in the ass, and at the end of it you steal have to deal with having separate peripherals since the VM is a completely separate machine. Bare metal is the way to go.
Using linux is easy >Me last week >having exams >system locksup >Nothing responds >manages to tty and init 6 >custom kernel Fails to boot >so did the fallback one >Fails test
Been usung RHEL off in years past for work. Server Linux is awesome. Been using desktop Linux off VirtualBox. Luke is right if you're going to use Desktop Linux install it on bare metal. For now I'm using Windows for a Desktop OS until I get a separate box for Desktop Linux. Also keep the apps native, I made the mistake of trying to use WINE etc, don't bother.
I like your fugue comment, it really is like a bunch of individual components that come together to form a complete piece. I guess Windows and macos is more homophonic...
If all you play are single-player games on your Windows install, then you could move to Linux. However just know that compatibility for new games tends to be very hit and miss, don't expect things to just work. If you're moving to Linux for no other reason other than you think it's cool and at the same time you're a gamer, then you're moving for the wrong reasons and should just stick with Windows.
what you are saying is basically what i did when i switched to linux: >only used the linux mint store and discovered thinks like Okular >too lazy to use wine and i wasn't caring in using libre office instead of MS office >before installing i spend a lot of hours on the live USB just seeing the options and changing stuff bonus: then i started my distro hop journey: >From Mint to Linux Lite on my laptop but i hated XFCE in my first look and didn't solved the issue i was having; (apparently i like Win7 more than XP) >Ubuntu 20.04 on my main pc because mint because mint took some time to launch their 20 version; (they need to leave the "Unity like" behind) >Manjaro KDE because i wanted to see how KDE looks like and i realized arch based distros is easier than debian based; >"Distro" hopping every DE of manjaro because i wanted to try everything, and stayed with Manjaro gnome; ARCH LINUX TIME: >DWM but i don't know how to write a "Hello World" in C; (i think it would be hard to use DWM with non-latin keyboard) >Cinnamon DE but i wanted more than 4 keyboard layouts >GNOME because i wanted those more than 4 keyboard layouts and i get used to gnome and actually enjoy stuff they do right
Hey, Luke ok video. I for some reason got the impression that this is a composed video. The background exposure was very difficult , but the foreground seemed to be floating in the background. Lots of camera movement and seemed simultaneous but still had a feeling something was off. I enjoy most of your videos. Could you think of your older audience? We think slower and generally have issues with the keyboard as our hands are stiff and a little difficult to control. I tried some of the tiling window managers. But have trouble with the keyboard, so I use the mouse and left hand for the keyboard. Of course, I use both hands when typing but there are many errors. Any tips?
cool post... me I am from XP, now after about 6 years with Mint & some Debian's variants, REALLY having fun and relax internet, but sure Linux is a pain when to make music with analogues gears... Once I asked "Steinberg" if they will one day 'fork' Cubase on Linux they said that Linux is less than 2% of users? BUT THEY ARE WRONG! if there was Cubase on Linux 100% of composer will be happy.....
Installing Steam over Windows 10 over MacOS over Arch Linux with GPU passthrough is the ultimate big brain move.
to do that you need 4 gpu(s)
you didn't need to call me out like that.
if the brain's that big, why not imagine playing the game laying around in a dark room?
using 4 VM layers? that's what i want to hear
Based.
Using Windows/Mac software on Linux is like getting out of prison just to installing prison bars on your window to feel at home.
@@pieterwillembotha6719 , That was an interesting thought, but may I ask you, what is your point?
@@pieterwillembotha6719 , like a coincidence of self enslavement?, I believe that repeating patterns, many of which are subconscious, is not a coincidence, the only thing that makes us get out of them is to evolve, in this case to learn something new, that is like " Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", so yeah, not "pure" coincidences i guess, there is a quantum theory about that also ( not a thin foil hat one btw ).
@@pieterwillembotha6719 , well, was not a philosophical question i guess, you have a "mission", the last time i was talking about "subconscious" acts, so now i will talk about "conscious" acts, so yes that people not make "happenstance's" they are "rational", so yeah was a controlled damage movement, the chess game behind that move, for those of us who are not in the game, is not incomprehensible, so yeah, the happy ignorance of idiots. Here is the thing making something "subconscious" or "conscious", is still part of free will.
I had to do it because of school
Well, until Linux offers a SINGLE app (and SMALL too) that offers all the functionality that "simple" things like MSPaint provides, I'm using Wine for at least half of my apps. There are many apps I stumbled into that work better inside of Wine than the native Linux version too, Dosbox one of them that I can recall from memory. Epsxe emulator too. There's a bunch.
"wine is a windows emulator"
i think you just said this out of spite
Technically it isn't but who gives a shit. Wine is an emulator.
@@animepussy8356 compatability layer REEEEE
@@animepussy8356 then wouldn’t it be Wie?
@@laizz-6566 get ‘em
@@knucklehead99-z1w Daniel started speaking German out of confusion
“I want to switch to Linux, but I don’t want to have any problems.”
- Has your Windows/Mac experience been without problems?
For what it's worth, the problems I have on Windows and Mac are things like "the theme isn't cohesive, or this old app needs a ton of old libraries" whereas using Linux my problems are usually along the lines of "my screen turns black every 30 seconds for 1 second and my car won't start anymore"
I still love GNU / Linux don't get me wrong.
To be honest, I don't remember having problems with windows in several years. With Ubuntu 18.04 I needed several evenings to start the installer and to install the nVidia display/compute drivers. Then there was an wierd issue with my display turning black every several seconds. When I updated to 20.04 the only graphical environment that didn't imidietly crashed was Cinnamon.
My Mac experience has been without problems.
But only because I have never used a Mac in my life. Windows, on the other hand, is incredible. Every single version of Windows was broken. There has never been a good one.
must also account that people are paying for windows, and it is an expensive os lol. Imagine having to pay for something that doesn't work properly and you cant fix yourself. Meanwhile, Linux won't have any problems until you fuck up and you are always free to fix it yourself.
IF YOU ARE OFFERING A PIECE OF SOFTWARE THAT YOU PROMISE TO MAINTAIN WHILE CHARGING MONEY FOR IT, THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS MAKE SURE IT WORKS. lol
JUST US ETEMPLE OS YOU GL-...
-Rant.exe has stopped working
XDXDXD
@Schrödinger Cat Aaaaaaaactually, Nvidia open sourced their development kit. And the raw performance (under KDE) is fluid. Both native games and through Proton are set at Ultra settings on my 1660 Super, and the experience is kinda magical
We a quote in native language which roughly translate to "if u visit another country try their native food and respect it"
I agree!
When in Rome, do as the Romans do!
Based pajeet
dangerously based
go to MacDonald and don't experience anything new
"I want to be a vegan, because it's better for my health and the environment and animals!"
*bites into highly processed meat-replacement products*
"This doesn't taste like meat at all. That's a total dealbreaker, I'll switch back to meat."
Idk if you intended a subtle ironic jab but veganism how Westerners understand it isn't even better for the environment and the benefit for animals is iffy too
@@seronymus nor is it healthy.
@@seronymus It definitely is better for the environment. Animals raised on farms need vast quantities of land to graze and is the primary driver of deforestation (almost all deforested rainforest is used exclusively for cattle), industrial farm animals produce vast quantities of shit that washes into the water supply and oceans, animals that don't graze need feed which consumes more crops than eating them directly (even after you account for the inedible components of animal feed), uses tons of fresh water, and produce tons of greenhouse gases.
Questioning the benefit to animals is pants on head stupid. If we stop breeding farm animals, there wont be any farm animals to suffer other than the already existing population that will diminish over time. We don't even need to ban the practice, just if people conciously chose to cut back and learned to cook without centering every meal around a piece of meat. Now you might still say, "what about animals that need to be hunted or else they will have a population surge!" Well that wouldn't be a problem if we didn't kill all the predators to protect farm animals would it?
It is definitely healthy and there is a massive causal link between consuming meat and experiencing diabetes/heart disease/cancer. You do not need to eat fortified foods or supplements as a vegan if you maintain a varied diet and there is a rich history of preindustrial cultures with vegan diets (including Christian Orthodox and certain monk orders). For almost all stationary agriculture people hunting was not a common past time and meat was not an everyday thing.
Luke's most recent blog post about the topic makes me want to slap him. It's 80% just talking shit about vegans being annoying/marxist/bugmen and 20% strawman points/false assertions.
Full disclosure I am vegetarian and eat dairy/eggs, however if you consider eating a dog/cat/pet bird to be abhorrent then how the hell can you justify eating a pig/cow/horse/chicken when it is obvious they are capable of all the same thoughts and feelings.
@@SpencerLemay Consider watching What I've Learned's "Eating less Meat won't save the Planet. Here's Why". He touches on every point I believe you've brought up and explains why it still makes more sense.
@@SpencerLemay Reddit tier argumentation. Congrats, you've been duped by Big Soy.
How to migrate to Linux:
be a coder ,
use the EXACT same software in Linux,
feel superior
Literally me
No one's a coder, they're called programmers and they program, they don't code.
@@Secondarian thank you for giving us your hot take, after you finished a 15 minute long html tutorial
@@horde6486 damn 💀
@@horde6486 roasted him so hard lmao.
I love how the title actually describes the reason i went to linux
@@randomcultist398 thx, it was a commission from i artist i pay to
Same
I wait anxiously for the day luke finally trips on his walks
Sauce
@@seronymus you guys should learn to use google image search with tor enabled for privacy.
What the hell lol
Omg he just tripped on his latest video
Linux requires curiosity, discovery, interest, an open mind and quite a bit of patience. It's not for everyone. That would be my advise.
It actually requires a shitload of time!
@@personanongratis To get started, I installed arch like 9 months ago, went mental learning loads of things (using and customising a tiling window manager for the first time etc) I didn't need to know during the 6 months I used ubuntu, then can quite happily not need to do anything for weeks if not months. There's been one thing that came up from updating that required manual intervention, otherwise, it's been less of a headache than windows from my experience anyway.
Granted there's the odd thing that comes up, but it's so easily solvable most of the time I don't even remember it. Whereas when something messed me about in windows, it was basically, well that's how it is now, if you don't like it, don't use it.
I feel anoyed with my anxiety. I start to read the man pages for certain program and.... I want to learn it all now haha... I'm really loving Linux.
To me it's opposite I despise man pages. I used extensively for writing programs but still I hate man pages and documentation in every step but need none the less. Should have become mathmatician
@ilyas abi Don't use openbsd lol
"Install linux and suffer?"
Been doing both for years, bucko
Wait till U try *BSD
@@NitroNilz pointer BSD?
@@Lucas-md8gg you mean */starBSD?
It's a _wildcard character_ which represents *any* or *no* character. If I expand it in this context it would be:
- Wait till U try Open-/Free-/Net-/Dragonfly-/Ghost-/Arisblu-/Hello-/Midnight-/etc. -BSD!
A Berkeley distribution or no distribution.
(Refers to BSD - The Berkeley Software Distribution of the Unix source code which finally was able to replace all the license encumbered AT&T UNIX® code under a new *permissive* license. GPL is a _restrictive_ one which is not free as it dictates what one can and must do with the code, so it's not really a gift, but comes with a catch and even contaminates other works which in practice means that GPLv3 projects can use permissively licensed stuff and it will force it to be GPL. GNU is Not UNIX!)
How long have you been compiling Gentoo for my man?
@@NitroNilz What The Fuck
>if you're using Linux correctly
Sorry Luke, this is a LUTHERAN distro
I’m worried to suggest this to my friend. While want him on Linux, don’t want him in the woods, influenced by you. Love yr videos
Good call, he might randomly start discussing how industrialization and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
Buahahaha
LOLLLL xD
The nice thing about a lot of open source programs is that most of them have a Windows port, they can try a lot of the alternatives without even installing Linux. Moving to Linux was never too much of a pain for me because I already was using a lot of open source software like Gimp, Inkscape or Audacity before making the switch.
Totally disagree with the notion that installing a Windows VM is difficult or rarefied. Using wine on the other hand is a catastrophic nightmare.
@@marioschroers7318 There is a huge number of old Windows games that run very well under WINE, but not in Windows Vista and newer. That has to count for something.
I tend to agree, VirtualBox is pretty simple once you get the hang of it.
@@marioschroers7318 It's nice as a base for Proton if you like Windows games, for example I play Il-2 1946 on my Linux system just fine, with a joystick and all.
@@marioschroers7318 yeah, but you asked for why anyone would use wine, and I gave its only sane use... Anyway, I have been getting interested in classic Tetris recently. What kind of setup would you reccomend to learn the game?
Also, I am too generally not a big gamer outside of flight games (like Il-2) and strategy games.
Yeah I have no idea what I'm doing with wine I just click shit and pray
Everytime you see him, he is shooting videos for us in some random forest teaching survival. I bet we'll see him on discovery channel!!
"And here we see a minimalist Linux install enthusiast in his natural habitat.
Under closer inspection it appears that this particular individual is filming a vlog post, just this very second."
i wish he would make survival videos
@@kot3405 Surviving _the barren Userland_
I hope he hide the corpse correctly this time
We'll see him on the news when national guard descends upon his anti corporate commune with Blackhawk choppers and machine guns and burn his crops which "accidentally" sets the house on fire.... While they're shooting at it.
That's what happens when you create a radical branch, ignore the committers and fork too far from the source.
Switch to TempleOS
RIP TERRY A DAVIS 😢
based
based
based on what?
@@cosmonautilus1181 unbased
As a gentoo user, I can confirm that. Except games, I always say to go for the alternatives and expect changing the workflow. It's better to tell the bitter truths than spreading sweet lies.
What sucks is that, for some workflows (like architectural CAD and BIM) there's no reasonably complete open source alternative. That would make a VM (or dual boot) absolutely necessary
@@Diegorskysp17 In those situations, I do agree. Those alternatives aren't practical for most professionals which is the exception. Games with anti cheat elements are also under this exception too. Using a VM is necessary in those places.
@@PixelTrik I think I read somewhere that the Lutris teams was working on Easy Anti-Cheat compatibility so I think that is going to be taken care of in the future. But AEC software feels like a big blindspot in Linux (despite FreeCAD making some impressive improvements lately, but I still find it a bit unintuitive). Hopefully it also gets fixed in the future because I'm loving the ecosystem so far, despite my short time with it (installed Pop! OS on my laptop a couple days ago and i'm not regretting it)
Try that in a professional setting for most people they are in an ecosystem of applications they can't just go out and be different
@@jimmyneutron129 In a professional setting, you have to deal with the ecosystem your employer chose. My current employer relies on the MS ecosystem so that's what I'm put up with. On my personal machines, I tend to use Linux, not to be """different""" but the windows alternatives for programming workflows aren't upto the mark and I have to rely on WSL 2 on my workstations, this was something I didn't have the insight back when I originally commented.
"linux uses many small programs"
laughs in emacs
I actually run X in Emacs
CTRL-META-ALT-SUPER-CAPSLOCK-laugh
You're just running the Emacs virtual machine on Linux, just like running inferno os. Install it native.
Emacs is an interpreted programming language that happens to come with smaller programs that do various specific things. It's more comparable to Unix itself than to normal programs.
emacs? I never liked that distro.
All that "tradition" of misdirection going on and then the community forum people wonder why the noobs call them toxic.
The best thing to do is to have a dual boot: one linux partition, one windows partition. If you need to do some stuff in windows you just do a reboot and there you go; if you want to return to linux, just another reboot. That's the best solution for me (for now).
I installed and used Arch Linux for years on VirtualBox before attempting to install it on actual hardware. I only had one laptop and didn't want to get rid of my Windows system completely, so that was the compromise I got. Installing and running on a VM was not hard. When I did install on real hardware, though, by then I had learned so much that the process was not hard at all (the hardest part was getting networking; part of that was stupidity). I still remember the magic moment when I moved all my config stuff to the new machine and when it started up, everything was just like I had customized on my VM, working beautifully.
Pls help I can't get candy crush saga 3 to work in wine all advice is appreciated
Just set up a VM with GPU passthrough, dumbass
Also,Wine Is not an emulator,it is a compatibility layer
Exactly! "WINE" even stands for, "Wine Is Not an Emulator".
what you are refering to as wine is acutally GNU/wine
he never said it is though
Luke was talking as someone who is speaking to a normie. A normie won't even care about the difference between an emulator and a compatibility layer.
@@kot3405 1:46
1:45
"WINE is this Windows _emulator_ "
*REEE*
It's a compatibility layer! REEEE
2 shirts?
Florida man Must be cold
It is rn actually.
@Peter Mortensen I live near there.
@@papageorge4852 I ought to start looking again, I once heard something in the woods late at night.
I think the separate PC thing is 100% needed for learning Linux, because when you first start, it will take a bit to learn the new programs and adjust to the new environment. If you have something that needs to be done *now*. It's better to have the Windows or Mac that you know so you can do what you need so when you're learning Linux you don't feel rushed to get everything working all at once and you can take the time to learn.
Virtual machines are easy af, I use them to play anime booba games
Anbox is a strange unfinished pile of code.
I think gayming is a valid reason to run a windows virtual machine with GPU passthrough (the "easier" alternative would be dual booting but that's a pain in the ass)
But aside from that I can't think of any programs/software I miss from windows, in fact it's more like the other way around
Not necessarily. There are many fun games which native (or ported) on Linux. Also most of those win-only games are multiplayer ones with toxic community. (By the way, the sole reason I tried Linux was gaming, because the game I played (and modded) had only a 32bit Windows port.)
In my opinion the one and only reason to use Windows VMs is CAD/CAM. There isn't any proper software in this area which meets industry standards (maybe NX have native Linux version but it's mostly for manufacturing, not design and engineering).
@@IAintSeenNoNiggaHere Which game are you talking about?
@@0xva Kerbal Space Program. I began to play it around v0.23.5 With mods it easily took 10+ gigs of ram. Also the Linux version was generally more stable at that time.
@@IAintSeenNoNiggaHere Alot of industries have software that only works on Windows. My job, the only browser you can use to access it is Internet Explorer with Silverlight. You can't even use Edge. That's how out of date it is.
@@HeyBuddays I know. We have CNC machines running on Windows 95 (!) because the drivers for the screen, controller, process modules, etc. are so old.
Just tell people to try using open source utilities on windows to start with. If they live through that it betters their odds.
@@AnonymousGentooman those are easy picks because they are good, but the real deal is GIMP. If they survive using GIMP over photoshop they can survive anything.
@@prostagma3132 I always used GIMP because I can’t pay for Adobe
@@prostagma3132 There is no reason to ever use GIMP for anything, it's an awful experience and for everything it can do, there is other open source software that can do it better and/or easier. Most notably Krita
@@anima94 nice necro
MORPHEUS: I imagine, right now, you must be
feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?
NEO: You could say that.
MORPHEUS: I can see it in your eyes. You
have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he is expecting to wake up.
MORPHEUS: Ironically, this is not far from
the truth.
MORPHEUS: Do you believe in proprietary, Neo?
NEO: No.
MORPHEUS: Why not?
NEO: Because I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
MORPHEUS: I know exactly what you mean.
MORPHEUS: Let me tell you why you are here.
You’re here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that something is wrong with windows and macOS. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in the mind, driving you mad. It is this feeling that brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
NEO: Linux?
MORPHEUS: do you want to know what it is?
MORPHEUS: Linux is everywhere, it's all
around us, here even in this room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your phone. You feel it when you go to work, when you go to Wallmart, when you play on Minecraft servers. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
NEO What truth?
MORPHEUS: That you are a slave, Neo. Like
everyone else, you were born into bondage, kept inside a prison that you cannot protect your privacy, customize, or control. A prison for your mind.
MORPHEUS: Unfortunately, no one can be told
what Linux is. You have to see it for yourself.
MORPHEUS: This is your last chance. After
this, there is no going back. You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe.
MORPHEUS: You take the red pill and you stay
in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
MORPHEUS: Remember that all I am offering is
the truth. Nothing more.
First I started watching Linux youtubers, then I bought a used X220 for distro-hopping and dipping my toes in Linux, now it's installed on my main machine and I'm super comfortable.
I imagine you with a portal gun hopping from distro to distro... dipping your toes in fresh and pure Linux water. YEAAAHHH
Once the late stage Linux autism sets in you'll be using a tiling window manager with 20 different custom key binds.
@@tylerdean980 Not there yet. I'm really happy as a Plasma Pleb.
@@Pakanahymni Yeah, I just use Mint w/ cinnamon myself. I've installed arch on virtual machine if that counts.
Linux? You mean Ubuntu?
what a meme 🤣🤣🤣
sudo apt help me how to install minecraft????!!!??!??!!
@@orion5106 sudo apt install minecraft-launcher
and if you want the flatpak version then flatpak install minecraft
@@ok-tr1nw I know i was making fun of ubuntu users who dont know how to install packages,
@@orion5106 oh ok
>Run a Windows virtual machine, [...] incredibly difficult
lmao what
@@chyza2012 Muta with his bisexual Billy build
It's just another pain in the ass to deal with, honestly. It's not legendarily difficult to get set up but it just adds another thing that can fuck up over the course of a work day.
@@WhatTheFrogDoing Windows gets much easier to deal with once you install chocolatey/scoop and start managing software inside like you would on Linux
@@RealYethal what does this mean?
@@knucklehead99-z1w Setting up a VM is pretty easy on its own and can be made even easier is you use automation tools. Moreover managing the software inside the VM is also pretty easy once you learn how to use windows package managers such as chocolatey and scoop. Of course managing software the windows way (by downloading random binaries off of shady websites) is a pain in the ass but 99% of the time you don't actually need to do that.
Wine Is Not an Emulator!
@@samlee9963 for "wine is not an emulator"
Wine is high level emulator. Compatibility layer are just fancy words.
@@davidhusicka8440 Wine implements PE Loader and own WinAPI over linux system calls. It does not emulate anything
As someone who got into linux and was immediately directed to using KVM and having to read through pages and pages of documentation, fixes, and methods I can say it was NOT worth it. I eventually got the KVM running and it does all the windows things I want and then I realized I was just using windows inside of linux, I wasn't taking any of the benefits of linux, when I acutally started to learn what linux can offer and what advantages it has made my workflow change for the better and made me feel like a dumbass for spending so much time with virtualization instead of LINUX the thing I SWITCHED FOR. Good video +2.
Steam certainly has a bunch of other problems relating to proprietary software, not actually owning your games, data collection, etc., but it actually has come a long way when it comes to Linux compatibility. A good amount of games are native on Linux (maybe not newer AAA titles, but who cares about those) and those that aren't typically run incredibly well on Proton. For most of the games I've played recently via Proton, they either worked out of the box or required maybe one or two lines of launch scripting.
New games work just fine too,just not anticheat
Actually I do use virtual machines whenever college suggests some stupid application for some course ( I am a CS student) and i fail to find an alternative, which happens rarely. One more reason to love linux ❤️
I feel ya. I keep an old windows pc around due to lockdown browser.
I gave my computer illiterate 65 year old father an installation of Linux Mint. Gave him a one hour tour on how to use the menu, how to use open office and thunderbird. I only had to help him set up envelope printing due to driver issues and everything else has been working for 3 years without any of my input. Linux doesn't have to be hard for anyone.
I don't think that's how it usually goes. My mother even manages to break windows machines, she'd get Mint to an unbootable state within days. I personally went with a "userfriendly" distro too(fedora) and had tons of problems all day (lots of those caused by shitland and gnome but still) . In the end it was worth it for me but probably not for most people, especially computer illiterate ones.
What if I already use linux and/or my life is already miserable?
@@randomcultist398 laugh but that's good advice
Part of it is that people like the idea behind linux, but don't want to abandon their workflow they spent considerable time on developing just for some improvement in some aspects. For example if someone is perfectly comfortable using vim and bash scripts to do the workflow they are used to, they might find it's not worth to learn emacs for some things that may, or may not improve their workflow.
Boomer thinks point and click VirtualBox installs are rocket science
He is talking about gpu passtrough, and yes for tech illiterates creating a VM in Vbox is actually rocket science!
I still haven't figure out how gpu passthrough work 🥺
Only because NVIDIA insisted on restricting GPU reassignment to Quadro card drivers. AMD cards can be reassigned freely.
@@personanongratis anyone capable of installing Linux on bare metal is also capable of installing Windows in a VM. It’s easier to make a VM than a bare metal install because the process is nearly identical but you don’t have to open BIOS/UEFI in the VM case.
If you run it on decade old Thinkpad it's probably painfully slow
When I explain linux vs macos/windows to non-linux users, I use a metaphor. I say something to the following effect:
Whenever you use your computer you are trying to accomplish a task. That task can be editing a video, getting online, checking email, watching youtube, streaming on twitch, managing your finances, or any number of things. But for the purpose of using an understandable metaphor let's say that the task is picking apples off of a tree in a dark room. Perhaps a garage for some reason (computer science is weird you find yourself solving pretty strange problems).
You have two options. One a robot that has a few functions. You push a button and it runs into the room (leaving you outside), finds the tree using dark vision, climbs it, and starts flailing its arms around knocking apples down. It then runs around the room picking up all the apples off of the floor and then brings them out of the room for you. You can't go into the room with the robot, and even if you could it's dark in there, so if anything goes wrong, good luck troubleshooting it. It has a configuration settings panel that you can dink around with though. Hopefully one of those settings manages to solve any problems that might occur.
Option 2. You have a series of high tech micro tools that get one thing done well, but none of them alone can do your task. This is what the workflow looks like using those tools.
You open the door. It's dark inside. You use a light to see what's inside. You see a tree. You get a ladder and climb up the tree. You now see apples. You have a bucket that can automatically grab all apples you can see. Now you have a bucket of apples. You set up a magical transport to your kitchen. Now you use your time looper button to remember all these tasks, so that you can now do them all automatically with the push of a button when it's time to harvest again next year.
The windows way run applegrabber.exe
The linux way run door | light | ladder | bucket | transport
The upsides of using windows is that you didn't have to learn anything, and now you have some apples. The downside is that you had to pay a subscription fee, you learned nothing, and you don't even know if you got all of the apples. Some of them were probably damaged in the process because who even knows what that robot did in there?? All you know is that the apples are super dirty for some reason, but they'll work.
The upside of linux is that you have control over the process, can troubleshoot if anything goes wrong, and in the future it's just as easy as the windows solution. On top of that, you know how to make things like this happen, so if you want to do another task with these apples, you are already super comfortable working with them. Creating cider or picking a different kind of fruit won't take additional subscriptions/robots. Also, chaining tools together is much cooler. It's what Batman would do.
Depending on who I'm talking to I sub out batman for Link, Samus, Ironman, Gandalf, Rick, or whoever makes the most sense for that person.
As a longtime Windows user, i couldn´t agree more with anything you said here. By installing GNU/Linux, your are subscribing to, if not a religion, at least to a core principle which is Freedom in software. This means Freedom to do anything on your machine the way you see fit.
The problem with Freedom is that it is entirely useless if you don´t know how or don´t have the discipline to deal with it even to a point where all the choices you have to make actually become shackles.
It is a product of the modern zeitgeist to always ask for more freedom and rights without considering to fill these empty terms with worth through actual work and discipline.
This is best exemplified through the rise of Ubuntu and it´s many derivatives which give you the false promise of being a "linux for everyone". Just install and use it and you are free, we help you along the way by removing any notion of you actually using something different than macOS or Windows. We are so nice and friendly over here. Ubuntu is basically the democratic party of the linux world.
Which brings us of course to the republican party of the United States of Distros which is essentially Debian or, even more extreme, every distro which touts itself to be "libre". These are conservative bible-thumper distros. Here, you reach Freedom not in the worldly but in the spritual realm through asceticism. Your WiFi-card doesn´t work? Well you should have never bought hardware that doesn´t work without binary blobs anyway, just like you should not have had sex before marriage. Now go and atone for your sins.
This is why i also completely agree with your sentiments about Arch. Arch basically says: You want to reach the top of the mountain? I show you the exact way to get there but you have to climb the mountain by yourself. It doesn´t give you any false promises but gives you back what you put in it without limiting you in any way. It is a truely libertarian distro and the most honest approach to GNU/Linux imo.
They also seem to have thought their shit much more through which can be seen with the AUR. I always found software distribution through distro specific, restrictive repositories in a ecosystem consisting of dozens of little, independent distros to be highly ineffective and anachronistic. AUR is a much better fit for a diverse, community driven ecosystem.
I used Ubuntu back in the Vista days and was quite happy with it but i switched back immediately once Win7 came out, there was just nothing holding me there. I use a computer as a platform to run my apps on and cannot be bothered with the benefits of free software. I rather prefer the freedom of being able to download any commercial or non-commercial software known to man from any site i want in form of an .exe or .msi file and install it with a double click.
There is a german saying: "Do it right or don´t do it at all" and i decided long ago not to do it. But if i ever change my opinion in the future to become the master of my system, i will install Arch ;-)
install gentoo unironically
When I switched to Ubuntu.. Automatic update broke everything, had to manually install the correct kernel version with headers so that Nvidia driver and sound would work. Automatic log-in - could not login on startup..had to create a new user via terminal.. Setring up VMWare (wanted to use Visual Studio with Xamarin) - kernel headers again.. Setting up NeoVim as an IDE with CoC and Clang, which was a bit tricky but at the end worked (unlike on windows)! There were many other minor issues and I am still a noob on Ubuntu, but I learned the basics fast (through pain..)
Funny thing is, I believe there is a Windows application called foobar and it's a music player.
@Viper lol
7:56 It will take something like 3 or 4 different apps to achieve the same functionality and options offered in a simple thing like MSPaint (take screenshot, insert said screenshot from clipboard, crop said screenshot, insert text overlay over this cropped screenshot) Each of these steps will require you one different app, using particular commands or even terminal commands. Such a hassle.
The counterpart is that Windows will potentially thrash your hard disks making them die prematurely, and other planned-obsolescense quirks built-in into their system. If you value your time, productivity above all else, and has money to spare for buying new parts every 3 years or so, go with Windows.
Linux used to be very free compared to all the locked-down things on Windows, but over the last 4 years the amount of hassle introduced since the adoption of Systemd as base for majority of major distros out there is a sign that unfortunately Linux lost its edge also on this front too. Things work, until someone comes and breaks it.
Well, I'm gonna guess they figured out this would be the only way of some people to be able to keep long-term jobs and sustain their "careers". Hassle by design.
At least there is "some" improvement. At least it is not Windows, which is the biggest privacy invasive of all.
I always recommend people try setting up a dual boot system, usually with manjaro for the low barrier of entry. Most people still want to use their Windows programs, and if they don't have them and don't really get the Unix philosophy yet a lot of people are going to get frustrated and give up. If they're told "just follow this guide to dual boot Linux" it's pretty painless, and they can figure things out at their own pace.
My first semester ends in 11. Days.
I'm going home for christmas, and the first thing im planning to do is install linux on my old MacBook Pro mid 2012.
I've had an introduction to Linux course this semester, and I've planned to install Linux on my old MacBook since the first lesson. I'm really excited to expand upon my knowledge of Linux.
I have tried Ubuntu on a VM on my main computer, but I never got any use out of that VM. Wish me luck on my install, I'm fairly certain I wanna try Artix using this guys install guide.
Im excited to join in on your suffering!
Luke recommends manjaro as your first distro because it's like arch but a little more noob-friendly. But you do you.
@@xSh4dowNinjaactually manjaro is one of the worst distros for a beginer, even plain arch is better, maybe use artix if you want a gui installer?
As a real Linux newbee I was tierd of my old and slow mac but after installed Pop_os my old iMac 2007 all now work perfect :)
Yes , same for my old laptop , way over usage of CPU and HDD and GPU then all went down to normal after arch install
If all my music software would work on linux I would try going full time but that's not happening
same goes for me.. decided to stick to dual booting windows and linux, and all i do on windows is play games, and use certain programs that doesn't work on linux, like premiere pro and ableton live, since i've been still used to that.. however, i work a lot better with linux, especially when i do school, code, and other things.. its what i decided to do as well..
@Celery Offender I would not be able to use all of my sample libraries with Kontakt. I use them most
Music software? Don’t you just need paper and a pencil to write music? :)
@@StinkySkunk100 Not if you want to hear it!
@@StinkySkunk100 pen and paper is bloat, just hum your music instead.
Hey Luke you might want to look at snaps/flat packs etc from a developers stand point, it might be easier for them to just supply a binary package in these formats than having to deal with managing and submitting their apps to separate repos for different distros. But yeah I *do* agree with you about them in general, I just think it is a worthwhile angle to take in to account.
It drives me crazy when people say for newbies to dual boot Linux with Windows (especially using GRUB). That's a great way to make everything a pain in the ass, accidentally nuke your partitions, and have Windows nuke your Linux partitions automatically.
On my gaming PC, yes, it is quasi-dual booted. BUT, Ive been using Linux on other computers for a while now and know what to do. And those systems are on different drives that I use the BIOS to switch between. Windows doesnt even know that Linux drive exists, so it can't screw it up (though im sure it will eventually find a way).
I had to set up windows on my actual pc for some programs but before breaking shit I checked the arch wiki to learn how to set up a dual boot. Almost immediately gave up on it and just threw windows at the end of my secondary hd with some 60 gigs of storage. Way simpler to use the BIOS boot menu than have to deal with windows shit
Luke, This is the first vid I've seen of yours. You are right. I switched to Linux 3 years ago and had tried to switch way back in in the early 2000's with SUSE and Redhat. Linux is a whole lot easier/better now but I still dual boot with Windows 10 because there are programs I still use... Mainly Games that don't port easily to Linux unless you are English Bob - lol . That said the best thing people can do is set up a dual boot or better yet a separate system with Linux only and use apps like Libre Office and Gimp or other opensource apps that mirror the Windows based programs in many ways they are actually superior in function IMHO. Good luck with your channel.
Hey there. I agree with your main points. However, my advice is and always has been, is if your system is working for you, then don't change it. If you REALLY want to come over to Linux, do it with help. For me, it had to be "all in". That is not necessarily the best way, but some 20 years later, I have made a career using UNIX and Linux systems and programming. My graphics work now uses open source and I spent years with Adobe, however, I finally changed over to Gimp instead of Photoshop and InkScape instead of Illustrator, etc. It was all related to cost for me on those things. I think the video is good. I think new users ought to realize that there is a learning curve and a bit of work to make the transition and slowly might be the way to go. But I think patience is more the flavor of the day. Thanks for the great video!
Normally I recommend all people get naked, go to Finland and sing in the woods without tripping.
One of the worst things about switching over to Linux is the overabundance of non-answers in regards to forums or stack overflow questions. They have an awful habit of explaining, ad nauseum, how something works and then somehow expect new users to instantly understand how that translates into terminal commands.
I haven't done a lot of shell scripting but I've been getting into it more lately and the possibilities it opens up are immense. I imaging trying to do some of the things you can do with a simple shell script on a Unix machine would be very hard on Windows (especially older versions.)
The only thing that finally worked for me (about 3 years ago) was this: No VMs. No dual boot. No wine. No Windows or Mac anywhere. As soon as I got rid of all those stupid half measures, I was back to my normal work speed in about three days. Those were the things that were slowing me down. btw I use Arch
@Miriam Castillejo Felosa Debian is a very good distro. I used to use it on one laptop. Totally different purpose than Arch, in my opinion.
@Miriam Castillejo Felosa Debian is a great Distro! I like Arch because it’s fun and it’s ok for me if it breaks. It really doesn’t break very often though.
I'm conflicted on this. The examples given are extremely easy to do imo. Setting up a virtual machine is a common use case for class work (don't @ me I'm not a professor). Steam is native, and requires just a couple check boxes to enable proton/wine, which works seamlessly for 90% of games (in my experience).
However, yeah, learning linux principles is far more important than learning the ins and outs of running non-native applications. I do think that the majority of linux users do this to some extent though.
This is (kinda) exactly how I've started using Linux, I've installed Ubuntu just to fuck around and do basic Python scripting without fulling my Windows install with shit that I didn't understand at the time, then I've learned about LaTeX and that kept me closer to my Ubuntu install, after that I've started watching your LaTeX video I thought "wow, that autotiling stuff is what I've always wanted!". Less than an year forward I've yeeted my Windows install and I'm running (and loving) my Arch install with an autotiling wm
I installed linux around a year ago and used popos to best simulate windows, I fairly quickly quit because just ended up being a worse Windows. This time around I went straight into Arch and made sure to dual boot so I could gradually switch things over and get my install to where I like it before using it at all. Now my install works great and I use it 90% of the time though I still use my windows install whenever I run into a bug that I don't have time to fix or need to use a windows program.
The way I switched to Linux was dual booting, and slowly moving my workflow to Linux until eventually I didn't need windows anymore and I uninstalled it
You're right. I'm on Linux for 2 years or so, and I'm still learning!!!
i was agreeing with you then i realized i was playing DOOM eternal (with proton) like 5 mins ago...
I heard doom eternal is one of the rare games that performs slightly better on proton, so what's wrong with that?
yeah i was playing rocket league via proton while watching this vid (and it runs perfectly at 250fps, the built in limit). Wine in general is a lot better and easier to use than it used to be imo
@@AoTheMighty it outperformed the windows version because it basically had no DRM.
On my first Arch Linux install, I set up Virtualbox to use CorelDRAW, Photoshop, etc. Now I simply use Inkscape, Gimp. At first it seems scary. If you've dedicated reading hundreds of pages to learn how to use a program and then have to switch to another one. But the point is that it's all repeating patterns. Inkscape is the same as CorelDRAW conceptually, it's just the interface and behavior that's different. But fundamentally they do the same. They all have layers, same tooling etc. So do not feel scared to switch to a new program if you have to. Its worth it.
"running virtual machines is like normal thing"
In my case it is
Yes, but you are not the typical average user contemplating switching to Linux.
100% agreed..We naturally are exited when we have a friend that talking about switching over.. I resist the urge and say " don't ..Its just not for everybody.and thats ok.
virtaul machines are really just point and click on some distros. i use them to try out different distros/desktops or for playing around with more advanced/dangerous commands. Creating one only took a few minutes.
It's winter and I'm rewatching Luke's clips
Desktop pc in the mail, will arrive today. I’m not even sure yet which distro I’ll install there to be my first Linux machine after 12 years on Mac OS and prior Windows … but the only thing I’m expecting to be better on where I’m moving is - Bash! Hope that is the right mindset for a first Linux desktop :)
The correct answer is 'use a linux alternative that doesn't stray away from your workflow' and, install the distro that has the biggest application library. Because no newbie linux users has any idea on how to build and install a program. in short, recommend Manjaro KDE because of Pamac and the KDE compositor is superior to the garbage that is picom or the XFCE compositor.
There is another option: as a first step try to use Linux programs on Windows. Git, bash are ported pretty well, also ported BusyBox which contains 90% of essential tools including HTTP server.
You may use OpenOffice and VLC. Not sure about GIMP or any other complicated program. Browsers ported pretty well and users spend there a lot of time.
Unfortunately KDE and Gnome doesn’t port their apps. Only GEdit and few other minor programs have a binary for windows.
IMHO this is totally against Free Software mindset to not port a program to proprietary platforms even if this is easy to do.
The worst part of Linux, is my friends moaning at me, because I can't play the latest multiplayer game about shooting and picking things up from the ground.
It's also my favourite part.
Desktop linux is not an os. Its a cult.
PCI passthrough is actually really easy since there are like hundreds of step-by-step guides online, took me 40 minutes to set one up.
It was the thing that convinced me to ditch my dualboot (which I barely used because Windows is a very jealous OS).
For me it seems that the best way to switch to Linux is installing it as a dual boot with previous OS. This way you can use the software you need on a system it was built for. I agree that using Windows programs on Linux when there is a good native alternative is a bad idea. BTW I'm not even thinking about switching from Ubuntu based systems to something else because all this 'proprietary garbage' works on them. Belive me, some people really need those programs for school, work etc. because they're required to use them.
2:05 confused muta noises
Bruh, that's funny due to muta's "VM addiction" kek
The best advice that i can give to people that want to change to Linux, is to do dual boot with Windows and some Linux distro. Because with dual boot, you can gradually change Windows to Linux, and in last case use Windows to Run some programs. Also you have a lot of videos on RUclips about dual boot.
Second advice, is not use Ubuntu, use Linux mint, for my experience mint is more friendly user that Ubuntu.
The sheep are shackled to their GUIs. I call it caveman computing. Point and click. Ug ug ug.
I want a T-shirt with that on: The sheep are shackled to their GUIs
@@plaane
Cha cha real smooth
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I started on a commodore 64.
I never want to go back to typing everything in.
GUI for life.
I never suggested wine or virtual machines, I simply tell snd show how I do things and let the poor bastard to decide himself
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring as Wine, is in fact Windows/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Windows plus Linux.
Wine is not an emulator unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning Linux system made useful by the compatibility layer Wine and Windows applications comprising a full OS as defined by gamers.
xD
using steam on linux is literally the only thing out of this list that i actually think is worth while because i still play some games, and steam makes linux compatibility stupid easy. all i have to do is check the comments on protondb and set the game to use the right version of proton, maybe pop in a launch option, and it pretty much just works for games rated gold and platinum on the db. i wouldn't be able to figure out how to get those games running by myself
This video is spot on. And Google ruined it by putting a an advertisement break every 90 seconds.
Depends on the case, i'm using virtual box for windows 10, only because the team of my job uses visual studio 2019 ( not visual studio code ) , but is so less pain having windows 10 on a virtual machine under linux than a native or dual boot windows instillation. And i have the extra protection layer of the windows accessing net trough Linux i literally can reject Microsoft specific net packets, not so bad, but for noobs everything is bad or difficult anyway.
people at my work use visual studio, I don't, and there was no reason for me to tell them so, there is literally no difference which Editor everyone is using, why does it matter?
@@ezforsaken , first of all, visual studio it's not "visual studio code" which is a notepad in essence, clarified that. If you can do a single project with c++ dll's with python scripting and c# winforms interface and DirectX for rendering, using a text editor, good for you, here is the thing, probably you will need an external build system, to build that project under Linux, and later include many preprocessors to the c++ code to make it functional under Linux ( including DirectX compatibility ), In my case i'm avoiding the pain in the ass.
@@redsmith9953 oh yeah I understand now where you come from, we do mostly web stuff so there is no point in IDE/Editor differences! Thanks for clarifying
Windows consoomers aren't going to be interested in the Unix philosophy. We must accept the world as it is.
Yes
The number one most appealing thing about Linux for Windows users is how lightweight it is compared to Windows. Just wait until their 10 year old PC can't run Windows 10 any more, and they will be looking for a solution. Jump in and say, "Instead of buying a new PC, you could install Linux Mint XFCE on it and it would be like buying a new PC." Works every time. Never had any complaints either, other than a printer having issues. Most of the people I know that use Linux only do because of economical reasons.
when Luke "we talk like running virtual machines is a normal thing" ... It's like he's been living in a mountain :D I know a guy, who basically uses a separate VM, for everything he does on his PC ... so he like, watches movies on 1 virtual machine, he plays games on another virtual machine, he browses the web on a 3rd virtual machine, he watches youtube on a 4th virtual machine ... it's like he basically has a VM for every possible variant of what hes doing on his PC :D its like one of the first things I learned to do when I started switching to linux, as I wanted to try out all these distros, then I realized distros doesn't matter, and I found LARBS :) been a larbs user for years :) LARBS simply works, while it's truly minimal :D
Linux has been the exact opposite of suffering for me.
Sure, there's a lot of stuff I can't use because it's only compatiable with Windows. BUT.
I haven't been left wanting. Linux has so many gorgeous options for getting stuff done, especially if you're a programmer.
It's honestly been the best decision I ever made.
Sometimes, Linux Live Environments can even help you fix Windows boot issues. I upgraded my LG gram's main SSD, but it didn't boot. After booting into the Linux Mint Live Environment, I ran efibootmgr and found out that my new EFI partition has a different UUID from my old one. So I had to clear my entry, reboot into the Windows 10 Install Media, and recreate the Windows boot files in the Recovery Command Prompt.
The computer booted successfully. Not even Windows can fix boot issues by itself
I set up Linux Mint for my parents, cinnamon desktop is pretty easy for them to use since they were coming from windows 7. Made them try to use Xiphos for a while since they were used to e-sword on windows. Months later I did end up setting up e-sword in wine for them since Xiphos had a bit of trouble with dictionaries. That was the only thing that we couldn't get working satisfactorily from the Mint repos.
GPU Passthrough is such an incredible pain in the ass, and at the end of it you steal have to deal with having separate peripherals since the VM is a completely separate machine. Bare metal is the way to go.
Using linux is easy
>Me last week
>having exams
>system locksup
>Nothing responds
>manages to tty and init 6
>custom kernel Fails to boot
>so did the fallback one
>Fails test
Been usung RHEL off in years past for work. Server Linux is awesome. Been using desktop Linux off VirtualBox. Luke is right if you're going to use Desktop Linux install it on bare metal. For now I'm using Windows for a Desktop OS until I get a separate box for Desktop Linux. Also keep the apps native, I made the mistake of trying to use WINE etc, don't bother.
I like your fugue comment, it really is like a bunch of individual components that come together to form a complete piece. I guess Windows and macos is more homophonic...
If all you play are single-player games on your Windows install, then you could move to Linux. However just know that compatibility for new games tends to be very hit and miss, don't expect things to just work. If you're moving to Linux for no other reason other than you think it's cool and at the same time you're a gamer, then you're moving for the wrong reasons and should just stick with Windows.
what you are saying is basically what i did when i switched to linux:
>only used the linux mint store and discovered thinks like Okular
>too lazy to use wine and i wasn't caring in using libre office instead of MS office
>before installing i spend a lot of hours on the live USB just seeing the options and changing stuff
bonus: then i started my distro hop journey:
>From Mint to Linux Lite on my laptop but i hated XFCE in my first look and didn't solved the issue i was having; (apparently i like Win7 more than XP)
>Ubuntu 20.04 on my main pc because mint because mint took some time to launch their 20 version; (they need to leave the "Unity like" behind)
>Manjaro KDE because i wanted to see how KDE looks like and i realized arch based distros is easier than debian based;
>"Distro" hopping every DE of manjaro because i wanted to try everything, and stayed with Manjaro gnome;
ARCH LINUX TIME:
>DWM but i don't know how to write a "Hello World" in C; (i think it would be hard to use DWM with non-latin keyboard)
>Cinnamon DE but i wanted more than 4 keyboard layouts
>GNOME because i wanted those more than 4 keyboard layouts and i get used to gnome and actually enjoy stuff they do right
Hey, Luke ok video. I for some reason got the impression that this is a composed video. The background exposure was very difficult , but the foreground seemed to be floating in the background. Lots of camera movement and seemed simultaneous but still had a feeling something was off. I enjoy most of your videos. Could you think of your older audience? We think slower and generally have issues with the keyboard as our hands are stiff and a little difficult to control. I tried some of the tiling window managers. But have trouble with the keyboard, so I use the mouse and left hand for the keyboard. Of course, I use both hands when typing but there are many errors. Any tips?
cool post... me I am from XP, now after about 6 years with Mint & some Debian's variants, REALLY having fun and relax internet, but sure Linux is a pain when to make music with analogues gears... Once I asked "Steinberg" if they will one day 'fork' Cubase on Linux they said that Linux is less than 2% of users? BUT THEY ARE WRONG! if there was Cubase on Linux 100% of composer will be happy.....